HTC: Sense vs. Android Stock UI

[eval-]

To do anything fun with your phone you'll have to root it anyway, right? I think there'll always be people at xda-developers porting the last great thing back to your phone, with or without HTC's latest sense, so it shouldn't factor too much in your decision... if you want the latest Android, you can get it.

But that said, working on the Diamond where I've tried XDAndroid 2.1, 2.0.1 and 1.6, I'm pretty willing to stick with 1.6 for speed. Just have to fix some bugs in bluetooth and other things that somehow work in 2.0.1 but not 1.6. Latest is not always greatest when it's being developed on phones with 2x the processor and RAM...

[johnnycakes2]

Rooting a phone is easy, but I'd rather not sacrifice compatibility and official carrier support just to have a few slight tweaks on my device. If I had a dime for every cyanogen modder who wrote some bad review on the Android Market because a certain app didn't work with their ROM, I'd be Eric Schmidt. Rooting unlocks a few good abilities but not enough to warrant it IMO. But, to each his own.

[eval-]

Originally Posted by johnnycakes2

Rooting a phone is easy, but I'd rather not sacrifice compatibility and official carrier support just to have a few slight tweaks on my device. If I had a dime for every cyanogen modder who wrote some bad review on the Android Market because a certain app didn't work with their ROM, I'd be Eric Schmidt. Rooting unlocks a few good abilities but not enough to warrant it IMO. But, to each his own.

You might be right, I've never had a proper Android phone to know. All of the builds we work on for porting are rooted by default, kinda essential for us. And WiFi tethering is nice (stinebd just got it working for XDAndroid last night). I'm actually interested in seeing how Hero's Sense UI runs on our Diamond/Raphael HTCs (if the HVGA->VGA thing can be fixed easily), but a little scared of how much streamlining will probably be necessary to make it snappy =/